PYM Scavenger Hunt

How to Play

Use this page to read about the treasure you can scavenge in our yearly meeting. Find as many or as few items as you like. Be sure to document your items as you complete them. For example, if you find one of the oldest people in your meeting and ask them to tell you a story about Quakers, make a note of the story so you can report it. You can play solo or as a team, although you may only play as an individual OR as a member of ONE team.

Team Formation

To play as a team simply gather a group of Friends together. The team members can be from any PYM community and of any age. When you play as a team, the points accrued by each team member counts for the whole team. For example, if two team members go together to visit another meeting (9 points), the team gets 18 points. Teams can be as small or large as you like but they must work together and the team results need to be submitted at one time. Bonus! If your team includes Friends from 3 meetings: 10 points! If your team includes Friends from multiple generations: 10 points!

Travel Bonus

Our yearly meeting covers four states and many miles. Some Friends have fewer meetings close by so if they want to get points for scavenger hunt items that require visiting another meeting (or other location) they will have to travel. To even the playing field, Scavenger Hunters gain two extra points per person for every 25 miles traveled. This could also be used as an incentive to encourage Friends to go to a meeting that is further away than they have before. Players need to track how many miles traveled.

Fill out the form to submit your finds with responses, stories, pictures, etc. You will also be asked to list your name and contact info and the names of any team members. If you named your team you can share that as well. There is a space to make a comment for each item so if you have any extra stories or a case to make for extra points you can do that. There are extra points assigned for teams with members from 3 or more meetings or from multiple generations.

Original Scavenger Hunt Items which debuted at Annual Sessions (plus a few bonuses)

Find a PYM monthly meeting with lots of children and report how the meeting supports that. 6 points per meeting; visit the meeting for an additional 9 points

Name the commitments identified in the 2015 PYM minute of action on racism. 3 points

Worship at another PYM meeting and tell a Friend about it. 9 point per meeting

Find a diverse PYM monthly meeting and report what it is about that meeting that nurtures diversity. 6 points per meeting

Try a new way to bring visitors into your meeting. Recommend your own points based creativity and difficulty of your outreach.

Look into your family’s history. Identify ways in which your roots speak to Quaker faith and ways in which they are counter to it. 6 points

Find a bonnet worn by a Quaker. Where did you find it and who’s was it? 6 points

Hold meeting for worship in a public place with at least three people. Provide curious bystanders with information about Quakerism and invite them to join you. 9 points

Additional Scavenger Hunt items available online

Visit the statue of Quaker Mary Morris Wells, namesake for Wellsboro, PA. Alternative: get a F/friend to take a selfie with the statue and send it to you. 6 Points

Do historical research on a branch of PYM that no longer exists and report back two facts that you learned. Hicksite or Orthodox: 3 points. Any other branch: 6 points

Connect to PYM on Facebook or other online network1s. 6 points

Find meeting houses which have their construction date laid into a pattern of brick. 6 points each

Find a painting by or of a Quaker in a meeting house. 3 points per painting (max 2 per meeting)

Google and read about the quote from a PYM event: We are being called to step into the same stream of faithfulness that Sarah Mapps Douglass, Lucretia Mott and John Woolman stepped into so long ago. I feel we are ready to be loving and fearless. 3 points

Bonus: Express how you or a Quaker community you are part of have experienced this. Assign your own points depending on how impactful, internally or externally, the experience was

What was Lucretia Mott’s ministry? Why was her minute of religious service not renewed by her meeting? 3 points

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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting is a Quaker faith community, an association of 103 Quaker meetings, and an organization - all working together to nurture Quaker faith and practice in today’s world.

Quakerism is a faith of personal experience and direct communion with God, a faith of continuing revelation; and a faith of living our values in the secular world. All who seek to deepen their spiritual lives are welcome!